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Knox on education.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 34, as above.
KNOX,
Samuel.
An Essay on the best system of liberal education, adapted to the genius of the government of the United States . . . To which
is prefixed, an Address to the Legislature of Maryland on that subject. By the Rev. Samuel Knox, M.A. President of the Frederick Academy . . .
Baltimore: Printed by
Warner & Hanna,
1799.
LB575 .K55 .A35
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First Edition. 8vo. 85 leaves, subscribers’ names on 3 pages at the end.
Not in Sabin.
Evans 35690.
Samuel Knox, 1756-1832, Presbyterian minister and educator. This
Essay was submitted in a prize contest by the American Philosophical Society, and is supposed to have influenced Jefferson in planning
the University of Virginia, concerning which the author and Jefferson were later in correspondence. George Washington’s name
is in the list of subscribers.
In 1803 Knox published in Fredericktown an Essay on the means of improving public education, a copy of which he sent to Jefferson,
who, on February 18, 1804, sent it to Casper
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E. of Chesterfeild’s letters.
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 5, Chesterfield’s Letters, 4 v 12mo.
STANHOPE,
Philip Dormer, earl of chesterfield.
Letters to his son Philip Stanhope, together with several other Pieces on various subjects.
London.
12mo. 4 vol.
Neither Jefferson’s manuscript nor the Library of Congress printed catalogues indicates
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] the edition of this work in Jefferson’s library. A contemporary manuscript note in a working copy of the 1815 Library catalogue
states that the first volume was missing. The first edition was published in 1774 in two volumes quarto, and the book was
frequently reprinted in octavo and duodecimo format.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773. This correspondence for the education and advancement in life of his natural son
Philip, opened when the boy was five years of age.
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The Preceptor. vol. 2
d.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 35, as above,
8vo.
[DODSLEY,
Robert.]
The Preceptor: containing a general course of Education. Wherein the first Principles of Polite Learning are laid down in
a way most suitable for trying the Genius, and advancing the Instruction of Youth. In Twelve Parts. Illustrated with Maps
and useful Cuts . . . In
Two Volumes. The Second Volume.
London: Printed for
J. Dodsley.
8vo. vol. II only.
Halkett and Laing IV, 411.
Lowndes IV, 1958.
The entry for this volume appears in the 1815 Library catalogue as above; the book was either never delivered to Congress,
or was lost immediately after delivery. In the contemporary working copy of that catalogue the word
missing is written beside it in ink, and it is included in the manuscript List of Books Missing from the Congress Library made after
1815. The entry is omitted from the later catalogues, and it is not known which edition was in Jefferson’s library.
Robert Dodsley, 1703-1764, English poet, bookseller and dramatist. The Preceptor was originally published in two volumes in 1748. Samuel
Johnson was one of the contributors.
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